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• Independent consultancy advising serial entrepreneurs and startup teams on corporate development, financing, etc.• Build and maintain relationships with business and technology industry leaders both to enhance the portfolio’s standing in the industry and to create business opportunities for the companies in Ascendance’s network.

Joined Entrepreneurs working collectively as environmental activists to demonstrate pro-environment policies can and should also be pro business.

Oakland, Ca, Us

Founding member of Housing and Environment Circles

Orinda, Ca, Us

Evaluated early stage startups seeking angel and venture investment.

Organized grassroots to major donors efforts from day one of the campaign, including "ObamaScribes" letter writers and culminating with the campaign's largest all volunteer GOTV phone bank.

Stanford, Ca, Us

Establishing community and communications tools for civic-minded individuals to prepare for and to help assist victims of humanitarian disasters and disruptions. The Reuters Digital Vision project is establishing a prototype reference and networking resource for individuals and civic organizers, even relief workers, government officials, military personnel and companies working to reduce the toll of callamities estimated to impact the lives of two billion people - or nearly one in every three people on earth.

• Sourced and evaluated new investment opportunities.• Managed second largest ever [after Crossworlds] Angel funding of a Silicon Valley startup, March 2000.• Established program and team for an infrastructure software for equity program to establish and extend the network of NextSet Software customers in the targeted industries of financial services and e-commerce.

• Managed company’s marketing program during an extensive scaling back and restructuring of the company, which provides infrastructure software and services to the banking and electronic commerce industries.

Toronto, On, Ca

• Sourced, performed diligence and managed investments in technology and software companies and maintained relationships in Reuters’ venture investment portfolio. Companies in which led or co-led investment and/or held board seat included Epicentric [sold to Vignette Corp.], VentureOne [sold to Wicks Business Information], Tacit Communications, On24, Aurigin, Bitpipe and Digimarc. The Reuters portfolio included leading technology infrastructure and information companies, such as Yahoo!, Infoseek [Sold to ABC/Disney], Verisign, Intertrust, and Sportsline.• Established relations between portfolio companies and Reuters business units.• Managed Greenhouse incubator development project to showcase and test models for utilizing technologies of portfolio companies for extending Reuters offerings.• Developed and managed annual Silicon Valley ‘Technology Tour’ for Reuters board members and senior company executives.

Toronto, On, Ca

Senior Correspondent - Silicon Valley 1996-1997 Palo Alto CA• Established and managed high tech news bureau.Editor and Senior Correspondent 1993-1996 London, England• Developed TV spot coverage for Reuters Business Television and Sky News.• Launch editor of Reuters Air Cargo Service.Northwest (U.S) Correspondent 1991 – 1993 Seattle, WA• Opened Reuters’ first Seattle bureau, initiating direct coverage of Microsoft, Boeing, and the Pacific Northwest region, including launch of a NW energy report.Wall Street Correspondent & Technology Specialist 1987 – 1991 New York, NY• Led reporting on end of 1980s LBO era, including takeover battles for Hollywood studios and NCR, and collapse of high-flying investment bank Drexel Burnham Lambert.• Day-to-day manager of a newly formed Wall Street stock market reporting unit. • As Technology Specialist, responsible for U.S. technology industry coverage.• Covered 1988 Presidential race and U.N. sessions.

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Covered Nobel Prize selections, East-West arms talks, Cold War submarine intrusions, etc. in the five Nordic countries.

B.A. [Cum Laude], Social Studies Honors Program

M. Phil., International Relations

Mba, 1996

Certificate For Mid-Career Journalists, Economics And Future Of Society

Digital Vision Fellow, Business And Entrepreneurship

Diploma, With Distinction